Help please, Thoughts?

Unfortunately I didn’t make this table! This table was shown to me by a colleague who had inherited it from his mother who recently passed away. As you can see the top is split as are two of the sides. The table is made from either stained Lime or another wood suitable for chip carving. I am certain that the table is a considerable age because of the boiled animal glue that had been used and also the old style ( well rusted) panel pins used on the inside with corner blocks to help hold the sides in place. The sides are tongue and groove together, with the groove running the whole length of the sides.

The owners mother lived in England and seems to have owned the table for some considerable time. Anyway, my friend would like to know more about the origins of the table. Can anyone help? has anyone seen a table like this before?( I haven’t) Any thoughts as to the country of origin. The design is almost certainly chip carved by hand.

Many thanks

Colin

-- Colin, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. "Every craftsman was once an amateur"

I saw the star of David too. It makes me think of somewhere around the Mediterraniean, eastern interior. The leg design looks to be like some that I’ve seen from either Israel, Iran, India, Turkey or Pakistan. It doesn’t look like it would be Russian or African, Chinese or Micronesian. I’ve googled it to death, can’t find anything there…

Hi Colin, this is a strange peace, the shape of the table looks from Northern Africa, but the carving work is not like northern African, remember my Nordic carving. Is possible this table bin made in Britain, for another way, In Morocco, they use cedar wood to furniture construction for centuries, not Lime. During the 19th century was a tendency in Europe for make a kind of revival furniture from ancient edges like: Gothic, renascence, Indian, Chinese and so on. Sometimes the creators of this peaces dont follow exactly the ancient style, and create a kind of “hybrid” furniture, maybe this table is from those past time.